Do you have a habit of not finishing things? Put out a good partial sketch of something, then lose momentum / interest as the prospect of finishing is too daunting? Yeah, me too. But I'll bet in all your dreams of artistic mastery, the things you make are finished. So that's really the first criteria of a successful piece. And guess what? Finishing things is a skill that takes practice, alongside the skills of actually making things.
So even though I wasn't really satisfied with the initial (improvised) sketch last week, I committed to finishing it out no matter what. Barf! What an ordeal! I wanted to scrap this thing the whole way. But I kept showing up in the studio and solving problems instead of walking away from them, and the final result is something finished. Is it 'good?' Lol, lmao. I literally no longer care. Whatever it is, it's this, and it's done, and I'm free to make something better now.
